Actor Kevin Spacey has told a London court that allegations he grabbed a man's crotch were "absolute bollocks", in a series of combative exchanges with prosecutors in his sexual assault trial.
Key points:
- Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has denied all charges of sexual assault against him
- Mr Spacey said his accusers were motivated by money
- The four accusers said Mr Spacey aggressively groped them
Mr Spacey has pleaded not guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to 12 charges of sexual assault allegedly committed between 2001 and 2013.
The offences allegedly happened when he was living and working in England as artistic director of a theatre in London.
Four accusers have said Mr Spacey aggressively groped them and, in the case of one complainant, performed oral sex on him while he was passed out in the Hollywood star's flat.
The two-time Academy Award winner was questioned on Friday by prosecutor Christine Agnew, who asked Mr Spacey about a complainant who alleged Mr Spacey painfully grabbed his crotch like "a cobra" in the mid-2000s.
He said the man made up the story from beginning to end.
Accusers motivated by 'money, money and then money', Spacey says
Mr Spacey described the allegation as "absolute bollocks", using a British slang term for testicles and for something which is untrue.
Ms Agnew replied: "Yep — because that's exactly where you did grab him, isn't it?"
Mr Spacey asked: "Did he accuse me of grabbing his bollocks?"
He then said: "I didn't."
When asked why Mr Spacey thought the accuser was making up allegations he said "Money, money and then money."
Ms Agnew earlier asked Mr Spacey whether he regularly used "the crotch grab" when he met men for the first time.
The actor said he did not.
He said he was "an affectionate person" and would hug people when he met them, but that he would not pursue someone if they did not appear to be interested in him.
"I, at times, was promiscuous and I had casual, indiscriminate sexual encounters," he said.
Ms Agnew asked the actor if he felt a "frisson of excitement" if he propositioned straight men. The actor said: "I don't know if somebody's gay or straight by looking at them."
Loading...He was also asked about a complainant who alleged Mr Spacey gave him an "awkward" hug, kissing his neck and then grabbing his crotch, after he went with friends to where the actor was staying near Oxford in central England.
Mr Spacey has admitted making a "clumsy pass" at the man, but denied sexually assaulting him.
"I definitely misread the signs that I thought [the man] was sending, I accept that," he told the court.
He added that his contact with the man was not "what you would call a grab or a grope — it is a gentle touch".
Ms Agnew asked if there had been "the beginning of a squeeze" of the man's genitals, which Mr Spacey said there may have been.
Mr Spacey described his encounters with two of the other complainants as "consensual interactions".
"If they went further than they wanted, they didn't tell me," he said.
Reuters
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2023-07-14 14:32:46Z
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